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The World Bank has reaffirmed Afghanistan’s classification as a low-income economy for the 2026–27 fiscal year, underscoring the country’s entrenched position among the world’s most impoverished nations. The designation comes at a time when…

KABUL / GENEVA – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Tuesday that more than 393,000 vulnerable Afghan returnees received critical humanitarian assistance between March 2025 and May 2026 through a European…

Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, has issued a stark warning on the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power: the systematic exclusion of women and girls in Afghanistan must never become a normalized feature of…

The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States meets the conditions of the interim deal with Iran, including lifting the naval blockade and sanctions as well as releasing Iran's frozen assets, Iran's parliament speaker and…

Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has issued a stark warning that the Taliban’s escalating restrictions on Afghan women and girls are exacting a mounting toll not only in terms of lost freedoms, but…

Jumakhan Fateh, a prominent local commander in the Darwaz region of northeastern Badakhshan province, has surrendered to Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense forces following nearly a week of intense clashes between his armed followers and…

As Indonesia marked its 81st Independence Day on Monday, thousands of residents on the island of Flores remained in desperate need of food, medicine, and shelter days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 54 people, injured dozens…

Since the start of 2026, natural disasters have affected more than 92,000 people across all 34 provinces of Afghanistan, resulting in at least 97 deaths and 331 injuries, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of…

The Polio-Free Afghanistan organization has announced that a new polio vaccination campaign will begin Monday across five provinces, as health authorities intensify efforts to curb the spread of the virus following the confirmation of new…

Since the Islamic Emirate returned to power in August 2021, Afghanistan has received more than $11 billion in humanitarian assistance, according to United Nations figures cited by the BBC. Despite this substantial influx of international…